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E. M. LI NDBERG.

HAIR CURLER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.2. 192]- 1,387,785; PatentedAu; ;.16,1921'.

IIWENTOR A TTORNEY UNITED. STATES.

PATENT, OFFICE.

ELIN M. LIENDBERG, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

HAIR-CURLER.

, To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIN M.'LINDBERG, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at -Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Curlers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompany ing drawing.

This invention relates to hair curling devices and has special reference to an electrically heated curler.

The principal object is to provide a hair curler of this character used in the making of an attractive and trim coiffure, which may be applied to the head in its entirety for the final desired results and then subsequently heated so that all of the heat units in the device are simultaneously acted upon, permitting of the desired results being accomplished in the least time possible.

Another object is to provide means whereby after the necessary heating is accomplished the device may be retained upon the head while cooling and during a time when the user may be employed in other acts connected with her toilet.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the further description thereof.

Referring to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application and in which like reference characters indicate like arts: P Figure 1 is an elevation of one of the completely assembled devices and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a ladys head and reflection, showing how the device may appear in use.

I am aware that there are many forms of curling and clamping irons which are heated in various ways, by electricity and otherwise and some such devices that are not artificially heated but left in the hair a suflicient time to produce the desired results, but my present invention resides in having connected to an electric circuit, illustrated at 1, a plurality of spaced heating units illustrated at 2. The circuit wires 1 are all of a length only suflicient to conveniently support the heating units spaced the desired distance apart, and one end of said circuit terminates in a suitable plug illustrated at 3, which it is Specification of Letters .Patent. Patented Aug, 16, 1921 Application filed April 2,

1921. Serial No. 457,846.

to be understood may be conveniently plugged into any feeding circuit desired as is common in similar forms of heating devices and which feeding circuit may or may not have a switch therein for turning on and off the current.

The heating units 2 comprise a rigid heating member 4, provided with any practical form of electric heating element which is incorporated therein, as is common to such devices, and a resilient cooperatively engaged clamping member 5, the latter being so disposed in connection with the heating member 4 so that it'normally remains apart from said heating member though securely attached thereto at one end. This clamping member is provided with a small holding ring 6 in the looped or hooked end 7 thereof and which is to permit of the secure holding of the clamping member adjacent the heating element when desired by sliding said ring upwardly about the heating element and clamping member, as shown at 8 in Fig. 1. The hook 7 in the free end of the clamping member 5 is for the purpose of preventing the dislodgment of the ring 6 therein.

At 9 I have shown miniature sockets, such for example as are used in lines of electric light wires for Christmas trees and the like, and into which the plugs of the heating elements 2 are either screwed or plugged as preferred, and, while I have shown in Fig. 1 but three of the heating units, it is evident that any number may be employed.

By this arrangement there is provided a short length of electric wire, having mounted at intervals therein a plurality of hair curling devices, there being a socket at one termination of the wires and which assemblage may be readily applied to the users hair with one or any number desired of the curlers engaged within the hair for action thereupon, when the plug 3 may be connected with an electric supply, such as the ordinary electric light circuit, and the desired heating of the curlers accomplished, when the plug 3 may be disengaged and the user go about her other acts of toilet preparation without any inconvenience or delay during the further action of the curlers in cooling and completing the desired result to the hair, when the device may be removed at leisure and the coiifure completed. The convenience and utility of the device are obvious to those accustomed to the employment of such devices.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a portable electric circuit, of a plurality of spaced curling irons within said circuit.

2. The combination with a portable electric circuit, of a plurality of electric heating units operatively attached thereto.

3. A device of the character described comprising in combination a comparatively short electric circuit having means for intermittently connecting said circuit with a source of electric supply, a plurality of spaced electrically operated heating units operatively connected in the circuit and means for temporarily holding the object being heated upon the units, substantially as described.

1. The herein described method of producing an'attractive coifiure, of curling portions of the hair on separate heating units then applying an electric energy to all of the units simultaneously.

'In'tes'timony whereof I hereunto allix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ELIN M. LINDBERG.

lVitnesses S. C. BRONSON,

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